Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-12-21
The Murkrille enquirer.
s. c.. :
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER p, 1887.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

lima, who was chairman laSC SeSSlOH VI
the committee on public Buildings and
Grounds, and who will be chairman OF the
same committee this Congress if ne de-
sires it, favors the erection of a new build
ing in the city of Washington for the city
postofice and district government. This
measure was up last session, but there was
difficulty about a site.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has
introduced q bill in the Senate requir-
ing railroads engaged in Interstate com.
merce to employ conductors who must
be licensed after examination as to qualiti-
cations and railroad experience and be
licensed for one year.
Mr., Dibble was interviewed in regard
to a measure to amend the United States
constitution by providing a second Vice.
President. He will introduce it and press
it upon Congress thissession. He has gath
cred some curious figures in regard to this
matter. Out of eighteen Presidents, four
have died and their duties devolved on
Vice-Presidents. Of twenty-five men
elected Vice-President, five died in office,
one resigned and four became President.
In a hundred years nearly of our, gov
eminent, we have been without a Vice.
President for over twenty-five years, or
one-fourth of the time. In the last forty
years, we have been without a Vice-Pres-
ident for over eighteen years, or nearly
one-half of the time. Mr.. Dbble thinks
that with such an experience. we need
another ce-Presidentt to provide for con-
tingencies, especially as We have been sew
eral times so near a chaos in the executive
department Of the government.
There is no joint purpose on the part of
the Senators either to do or abstain from
doing any given thing during the present
week, unless indeed, a uniformity of Opln-
ion in favor of beginning the holiday re-
cess tomorrow be accounted a purpose.
The Senate Calendar contains only three
bills which can be taken up for action, one
of which provides for the %refunding to the
States of the direct tax of 1861. A dozen
measures lie on the table, some of which
will doubtless be called up during the
week by their originators as texts for set
speeches, and will then be referred to the
proper committees.
The matters of the greatest general in
terest before the Senate in executive ses-
sion are Cabinet nominations, and these
seem to be awaiting the motion of the ju-
dietary committee, to which the nomina-
tions of Lamar and Villas were sent. The
belief is general among the Senators that
no action will be taken upon these nomi-
nations until after the holiday recess. The
total number of nominations before the
Senate is 429, not more than a dozen of
which have been reported back from he
committees.
The few days in which the House will be
in session during the week will, in all prob
ability, be devoted to the discussion OF the
rules which are to govern the proceedings
of the House for the present Congress.
The committee on rules, which it is learn
ed on authority will be the only important
committee appointed before the recess,
will be announced and an early adjourn
ment will be had in order to enable that
committee to formally organize and pro-
coed to the consideration of the proposed
changes of rules. The House will adjourn
tomorrow for the holiday recess.
The PREsBYTERIANs.-The committees
appointed by the Northern and Southern
Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church to
meet at Louisville and confer upon q pro-
posal to reunite the two branches of the
church, held meetings looking to that OBJ
ject on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of last week. All the members Of the
Southern committee were present. OF
the Northern committee all were present
except one. Meetings were held by the
committees in conference and also sepa-
rately, and the sessions were secret but
it is understood, adjournment took place
without any definite action having been
agreed upon.
Rev. DIR. Jos. r. Wilson, of the South
ern church, who was made secretary of
the conference, stated that another joint
session of the committees would be held
before the general assemblies convened
next May.
The time and place, however, have not
yet been determined upon. The members
of the committees declined to state the
reasons for the adjournment without haV-
ing settled upon any recommendation to
the general assemblies, but the natural in
ference is that they were unable to dispose
of some question at issue.
THE EDGEFIELD MURDERER.-Concern-
ing Jones. the murderer of the Pressleys,
the Edgefield Chronicle of last week says:
"There is no truer man or more conscien-
tious official of the State than Solicitor
Nelson. We know whereof we speak.
And a fact which we ought to have men,
toned last week, but inadvertently omit
ted, is this. In a few days after Jones' lib
Grafton and our urging his rearrest, we re-
ceived an intimation from Solicitor Nelson
that he intended to have Jones rearrested
at as early a day as possible, accompanied
by satisfactory reasons-not necessary or
wise to be herewith stated-why it could
not be done before. We hear that Jones
is in Georgia. Not only time, place and
circumstance, but also quips and bubbles
of the law, may prevent the rearrest of
Jones. Should this be the case, it would
NOT he the fau1t of Solicitor NelSOn.n
At the Baptist State convention, recent
ly held at Sumter, fifteen thousand dol
lars was pledged to the endowment fund
of Furman university. Of this sum the